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Financial planning

Consolidated finally ready to hit the ASX

After months of wrangling, Consolidated Financial Services (CFS) has launched a prospectus to list in October and raise $1.4 million, nearly 12 months after the initial p...

Financial planning

InvestorWeb's $48m dream

Three years ago, they were a group of former IT and research execu-tives from Lonsdale and IOOF with an idea....

Financial planning

InvestorWeb appoints research pioneers

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Financial planning

IFSA raises its own ethical standards

In previous <I>Money Management </I>columns, readers have been alerted to one of IFSA’s major projects - the development of an industry code of ethics and associated prac...

Financial planning

Broking and private clients - threat or opportunity for planners

The advent of on-line share trading appears to have been a harsh wake up call for stockbrokers. Zilla Efrat examines whether the Internet poses a threat to, or an opportu...

Financial planning

One small step for ASX, one giant leap for ACS

Direct share trading for financial planners has taken another leap forward with the ASX awarding the first Third Party Clearing (TPC) broker status to a Melbourne firm. A...

Financial planning

InvestorWeb still on track

Plans by online investment research house InvestorWeb to list on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) have taken another step forward with the appointment of Bridges Finan...

Financial planning

Investor sentiment is flying high

Australian investor sentiment has reached a four-year high, climbing seven points to 41 since the last time the survey was run last November....

Financial planning

Watchdog gives Melbourne broker six of the best

Former Melbourne-based broker Allan Edward Gooderham has been banned from acting as a securities dealer representative or investment adviser for six years and has agreed ...

Financial planning

IFSA – Where will you be on July 1, 2000?

Most Australians you speak to today are focussed on one, or both, of two upcoming events: New Year’s Eve and the Olympics. But for those of us who work in the financial s...

Financial planning

Equities – Nothing ordinary about ASX change

Australian Stock Exchange executives are busy gathering feedback from fund managers and other users of the all ordinaries index which could result in a major shake-up of ...

Editorial

Market shake-up forces rethink in hunt for value

It’s been a tough 18 months for value managers who have watched many of their long held beliefs being tested by a changing market. Zilla Efrat examines how Rothschild has...

Financial planning

InvestorWEb appoints research pioneers

GiveWell director Michael Walsh has been named on the board of in-vestment research group InvestorWeb....

Financial planning

IFSA raises its own ethical standards

In previous Money Management columns, readers have been alerted to one of IFSA's major projects - the development of an industry code of ethics and associated practice st...

Financial planning

Sanford’s going for broke online.

In yet another sign of just how fast financial services on the Internet are expanding, on-line broker Sanford Securities has announced plans to float on the Australian St...